Hydrogen or low capex thermal.

The UK has adequate salt formations for large scale storage of hydrogen.

trebligdivad 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Looks like someone is trying to push for it: https://ukenergystorage.co.uk/

Good if they can get it to work; there's also a hydrogen/ammonia storage scheme being planned; https://www.statkraft.co.uk/newsroom/2025/statkraft-shares-p...

I think it's going to take a while, but certainly worth trying.

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MagicMoonlight 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Hydrogen is the worst possible fuel. It's the least dense material in existence so you need a ton of it. It has to be made from either cracking polluting materials, or using a huge amount of electricity. It is really difficult to store and really flammable.

Nuclear is endless clean energy. Why do people like you keep ruining everything? If it wasn't for you, we'd have had full nuclear by 1980. No oil problems, no terrorist states, no dubai.

	▲	lostlogin 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Nuclear is endless clean energy. The UK hasn’t had any nuclear waste problems? It might be the solution but pretending it’s perfect is how we got here.
	▲	pfdietz 11 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This would be green hydrogen. Sure, it has low density, but underground storage is pretty cheap at scale. Yes, it's flammable, but that can be handled, and is handled routinely -- the world currently produces and consumes 700 cubic kilometers (at STP) of hydrogen per year. The huge advantage of hydrogen here is that a gas turbine power plant might cost $600/kW, a tiny fraction of the cost of a nuclear power plant. So if you have a need for a backup plant whose cost will be dominated by amortization of its fixed cost, hydrogen beats nuclear.